- present tense form of exist (3rd person singular).
exists
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that’s why it doesn’t feel like any kind of celebration as much as an otherworldly requiem for a country that no longer exists.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026
One of the primary goals of astrobiology is determining whether life exists elsewhere in the universe.
From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026
“The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist,” he said in his 1961 farewell speech, of the newly developed “permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
The Fourth Amendment exists, she writes, to protect “the privacies of life” and to guard against “too permeating police surveillance.”
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026
There is a feeling that has no name because, really, it is such an absence that it exists only in a vacuum of feeling and so, really, can have no name.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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